Frank Turner's "Reasons not to be an Idiot" is finished. Check it out in Music Videos. Frank couldn't actually be in it because he was on tour so we built a puppet and got to work. Producer and puppeteer Aliex Yuill built and brought the wire and mod roc Frank to life while James Yuill played along to the track in some very odd positions to get the puppet to appear to be playing along. It was pretty tricky to say the least.
On the techie side of things it was shot in HD on the new XDEX1 by Will Peverett and onlined and graded in the Smoke suite of Platform Post Production by Director and Editor Mike Holliday. The character based scenes were shot on a digital stills camera to give them the 'stop frame' look and comp'd with the cardboard fx in the Smoke in the final edit. All additional graphics were created in Photoshop and animated in (you guessed it) the Smoke suite. It was a lot of fun to make although tricky to turn around with out schedule so we hope you like it!